I've been busy working on the next generation of Linux.com. It's going to really
rock. It's going to feature tons of CSS niceness and still
(somehow) be compatible with Netscape 4.x. It already meets
these goals on the development site. *grin*

Mozilla. It's the hype of the day. If not, it's at least the
topic of discussions and rants on a few of the IRC channels
and mailing lists that I am on. I think it's a good thing.
There have been many speed improvements and bugfixes over
since the 0.8 release alone, and many
more to come shortly around the corner.

Sure, you might not be a developer of Mozilla
directly, but there are ways you can help... Report a bug.
Don't forget that Tuesdays are bugdays,
afterall! (Drop by #mozillazine on irc.mozilla.org and
report, report, report!)

What's new? Well, both support something speacial called
"spiffomatic", which is a nice color scheme maker. You get
to "theme" the "theme" with different color schemes. Of
course, Enlightenment's spiffomatic support is a bit more,
as it has more window states, its own weird menu stuff, and
also epplets. For Sawmill, it has focused and unfocused
window support.

Here's where I disagree with ScottyO... If Xach
mentioned something about Natalie Portman, hot grits, "first
post", or just plainly said, "this sucks!", then, yes; that
sounds more like a common -1 Slashdot comment. In my
opinion, Xach's comment was adaquate for this site, as it
pinpointed exactly what Xach thought. It was his opinion,
and he's entitled to that. Also, Xach suggested how the
article could be written better through constructive
criticism.

I think Xach is justified in his comment, personally. Also,
I think the article was a nice effort, even if it was
not perfect. If it benefitted someone, it was worth
publication.

So. This was an odd day. I swung by the post office for a
few reasons today. Oddly enough, despite the fact it's a
national holiday (St. Patrick's Day, interestingly named
after St. Patrick, a Saint in Ireland who drove out the
snakes, according to the story), the place was open.

While I was waiting in line to talk to the postal worker, my
eyes started wandering around the back wall. Tons of
multi-color forms flowing about, pamphlets, flyers, and a
nice little FBI wanted poster holder on the wall. What's
this? The top item on the FBI list was some guy who
resembled me a bit (but with the addition of a scar on the
bottom lip, and some tattoos -- both of which I do not
have), since I haven't shaved in a couple days. I then
turned around and hoped that no one would think I was the
FBI wanted guy.

I stopped by the stamp machine before leaving. I tossed in a
couple bucks to purchase -- stamps, of course. After the
second dollar, I realized that the standard stamp book was
sold out and all that remained were some flowery,
"Valentines day" stlye stams (complete with lace). Pressing
the eject button was to no avail, as it said that I
must purchase something before getting money back. I
was stuck. I ended up buying some envelopes instead.

Second stop of the day: The Bank. No, this had
nothing to do with any FBI picture (*grin*). I just had to
tend to my accounts, as boringly usual. I did, luckily, get
"home banking" info, which should turn out to be very cool.

I stopped by a sub shop, picked up a turkey and avacado on
wheat with salt and vinegar chips, snarfed it down, ran a
few more errands, and returned home. I've been working
since.

By the way: In case you're still wondering (for some
reason), I've never been in jail, never had a traffic
ticket, and I still have the little tags on my matresses.

XFree86 4.0 was
interesting.
I got it working, as it wasn't too hard here. ("killall
makedepend" did the trick when it hung during a
"make World" around the xterm area). Anyway, I
didn't bother to try to get my tablets working (XInput config
has changed, and I have a lot work to do right now w/
my tablets. *g*)
and
switched back to the older 3.3.x series.

I think I'll wait for XF4 to hit Woody
before upgrading for good... then I might get my hands on
another video card. Until that time, it's x2x
for me!

I'm currently working on new stuff (graphics, html,
php...
the usual) for Linux.com.
I'll love it when Mozilla's nightlies support
SSL... then I can check my new stuff for the mozibility
factor. (:

There's been tons of snow lately... One recent night, it
wasn't
cold enough so the snow turned to rain, and I found out that
my apartment leaks. Fun. Luckily for me, I had an
empty trashcan in the pantry area. Other than a little rain
on my parade^H^H^H^H^H^H^H apartment floor, things
have been great.

During a "lul" day (meaning: in the three hours before I
went to sleep one night), I also got the chance to
update LinuxArt a bit,
including more "freshly-posted"
pics *g*. I also
spent a couple very-late-night minutes messing around
with Blender, which is an entertaining piece of
software... too bad it isn't open source. At least I'm
getting the hang of the strange blenderized interface;
there's something to be said for that. *g*

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